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Introduction to Language, Land & Song: Studies in Honour of Luise Hercus
No full textLanguage, land and song are closely entwined for most pre-industrial
societies, whether the fishing and farming economies of Homeric Greece, or
the raiding, mercenary and farming economies of the Norse, or the huntergatherer
economies of Australia. Documenting a language is now seen as
incomplete unless documenting place, story and song forms part of it. This
book presents language documentation in its broadest sense in the Australian
context, also giving a view of the documentation of Australian Aboriginal
languages over time.1
In doing so, we celebrate the achievements of a pioneer
in this field, Luise Hercus, who has documented languages, land, song and
story in Australia over more than fifty years
Language, Land and Song: Studies in honour of Luise Hercus
No full textLanguage, Land and Song features the work of 45 contributors, who highlight current practice and draw on insights from anthropology, digital humanities, education, ethnography, history, linguistics and musicology. The book shows how the value of this multi-faceted documentation has become clear over the last fifty years. In doing so, it celebrates the achievements of Luise Hercus, a pioneer in the documentation of Australian languages
Women's yawulyu songs as evidence of connections to and knowledge of land: the Jardiwanpa
No full textLuise Hercus has always had a keen interest in Australian Aboriginal songs
and collaborated with musicologists both in the field and in her analysis. Her
examination of lyrics and the relationship between songs and the people who
sing them encompasses a vast area of Australi
The unwritten Kamilaroi and Kurnai: unpublished kinship schedules collected by Fison and Howitt
No full textInspired by Luise Hercus' groundbreaking work on the use of historical sources in salvaging Aboriginal languages, this paper explores early methods of anthropology in Australia and how nineteenth century texts might be used to reconstruct aspects of Aboriginal languages and culture. It examines the rich but little known kinship material gathered by Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt through the 1870s and 1880s and now held in a number of Australian libraries and museums
'I am sorry to bother you': a unique partnership between Luise Hercus and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
No full textThe Two Rainbow Serpents travelling: Mura track narratives from the 'Corner Country'
Full text linkThe ‘Corner Country’, where Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales now converge, was in Aboriginal tradition crisscrossed by the tracks of the mura, ancestral beings, who named the country as they travelled, linking place to language. Reproduced here is the story of the two Ngatyi, Rainbow Serpents, who travelled from the Paroo to the Flinders Ranges and back as far as Yancannia Creek, where their deep underground channels linked them back to the Paroo. Jeremy Beckett recorded these stories from George Dutton and Alf Barlow in 1957. Luise Hercus, who has worked on the languages in the area for many years, has collaborated with Jeremy Beckett to analyse the names and identify the places
‘Writing about music is like dancing about architecture’ : integration of multimedia into linguistic and anthropological publications
No full textOral literature and music are important elements of Aboriginal Australian cultures for contextualising linguistic and historical research. Neither music nor oral literature naturally lends itself to publication as a textual document. Yet the primary outputs of academic research in disciplines such as linguistics, anthropology, and history have generally been textual. Reducing performances to text, as with musical notation of a song or the description of a performance, involves a flattening of multidimensionality, a loss of information, and the privileging of the researcher’s experience of the performance over the performance itself. This also renders the research product less useful to the wider academic community, as they only receive access to those elements of the performance that seemed most relevant for the research interests of the author. Similarly, the reduction of tens or hundreds of hours of fieldwork recordings into carefully selected representative utterances, presented as glossed interlinear examples in a grammar or journal article, involves a loss of information that past technological limitations forced upon us. Such limitations no longer exist. In recent years the affordances of newer media have allowed researchers to experiment with integrating audio and visual materials into their text-based analysis. Luise Hercus, with the publications from her Aboriginal Song Cycles project (Hercus 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014; Beckett & Hercus 2009), has been one of the leaders in this kind of innovation. I was privileged to assist her with the production of The Emu History from Arabana-Wangkangurru Country in 2010, but at that time she had been producing CDs and accompanying printed books of song cycle material for several years already. These CDs take the form of interactive ‘books’ created in html form for display in a web browser. They retain a book-like chapter structure with a hypertext table of contents for navigation. The material itself consists of photographs, song texts, musical notation, audio files and interspersed text that situates and analyses the song stanzas. Unfortunately, these publications are also illustrative of many of the problems encountered when researchers produce research outputs other than traditional paper-based books and articles. It is difficult to find publishers willing to create, market, and disseminate such non-traditional outputs, and this, together with issues around the community’s desires and permissions, meant that Hercus had to arrange for their production and dissemination herself. This in turn means they are difficult to find in libraries or to purchase, and even references to them are not easily available. Because they do not count for the Australian Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) reporting metrics,1 they are not catalogued in the Australian National University’s research outputs database, from which publication lists on individual researcher webpages are populated. This makes the Song Cycle CDs almost invisible to a researcher who is not already aware of them. This is one very telling example among many of the barriers facing researchers who wish to experiment with newer technologies and their benefits for linguistic, anthropological and musicological research. In this paper I situate these examples in a broader context, surveying the ways in which researchers in Australia and beyond have begun to incorporate multimedia into their publications and what the future of electronic publishing might hold for our disciplines. In doing so, I elaborate on the aforementioned barriers that preclude more extensive uptake of innovative ways of conducting and disseminating research
CHU01-LA_161124_01 - Interview
No full textAudrey listening to and commenting on HERCUS_L01-011316, Luise Hercus interviewing Tom and Mary Brady.. Language as given: Lower Arrernt
CHU01-LA_161216_01 - Interview
No full textAudrey listening to and commenting on HERCUS_L32010284 Luise Hercus interviewing Bingy Lowe, Tom Brady and Mary Brady. Language as given: Lower Arrernt
CHU01-LA_161216_03 - Interview
No full textAudrey listening to and commenting on HERCUS_L32010285 Luise Hercus interviewing Bingy Lowe, Tom Brady and Mary Brady, various others.. Language as given: Lower Arrernt
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